Senior Application Security Engineer

Sr. Security Engineer, Stores Application Security

In Amazon Stores, we ship some of the widest arrays of technology found at any company. From amazon.com to world class machine learning pipelines, from innovative digital healthcare to no-checkout retail, we push the boundaries of technology in every direction using the globe’s largest AWS deployment.

As an AppSec engineer, you will collaborate with software development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing these novel services. In a given day, you might be inspecting an application’s code for security issues, building a new framework to help our software developers build faster and more securely, or fine-tuning the design for a new service alongside its software developers.

The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly. Technically, this person will be a security generalist with one or more areas of deep expertise. In their communication, they will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Interpersonally, successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions.

Our organization prizes its employees, and we show it through investing in work-life harmony. We have dedicated resources that consistently innovate in reducing on-call time and ensuring the team spend their time on the highest-value tasks. Join the stores AppSec organization to work hard, have fun, and make history!

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren’t focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we’re happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work.


Key job responsibilities
- Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects
- Security architecture and design guidance
- Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and Javascript
- Development of security automation tools
- First party application security research
- Adversarial security analysis using innovative tools to augment manual effort
- Security training and outreach for internal development teams
- Independently solve security problems that require novel methods or approaches
- Influence your team’s and partners’ process, priorities, and choices to improve outcomes
- First party application security research

About the team
Diverse Experiences
Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why Amazon Security
At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Inclusive Team Culture
In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.

Mentorship and Career growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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Basic Qualifications

- 5+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
- Experience working in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
- BS in Computer Science, Information Security, 5+ years of demonstrated experience in areas such as application security, offensive security and/or systems security and have a strong application security background with a focus on scalable solutions
- Solid understanding of threat modeling, design and architecture review, manual source code review, security vulnerabilities, attacker exploit techniques, and methods for their remediation and have excellent understanding of network architecture, enterprise IT systems and cloud such as AWS
- Programming/Scripting skills (E.g: Java, Python, Perl, Bash, Ruby, PowerShell, etc.) Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong problem-solving ability and the ability to work in ambiguous and constantly evolving environment
- Can identify and remove bottlenecks for your teammates, both in process and technology and collaborate with security stakeholders to develop security strategies and Can explain complex technical risks in simple, clear language that non-technical stakeholders can easily understand and act upon.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques or equivalent
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services
- Demonstrated strong judgment in assessing and prioritizing technical risk, with a solid application security background and a focus on scalable solutions.
- Proven experience designing, building, and securing complex AWS architectures.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts effectively.
- Proactive in identifying and eliminating bottlenecks across processes and technology to enhance team productivity.
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: threat modeling, secure coding, identity and access management (IAM), authentication, software development, cryptography, or security research.
- Strong expertise in AWS services, network architecture, and enterprise IT environments.
- Hands-on experience performing security activities across one or more phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including security design reviews, threat modeling, secure code reviews, and security testing.
- Proven ability to drive continuous, scalable improvements in security controls and practices, and to collaborate effectively with stakeholders to develop and implement security strategies.

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Experience Level

Senior Level